Fastener for gloves



No. 623,688. Patented Apr. 25, I899. w. s. RICHARDSON..

FASTENEB FOR GLOVES, &.c.

(Application filed Feb. 21, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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WILLIAM S. RICHARDSON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

FASTEN ER FOR G LOVES, 'stc.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 623,688, dated April 25, 1899. Application filed February 21, 1898. Serial No. 671,016. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM S. RICHARD- SON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fasteners for Gloves and other Articles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in explaining its nature.

The invention is an improvement upon that described in my Patent No. 605,833, dated June 14, 1898.

It relates to the blank from which the socketpiece is formed, to the socket-piece, and to the socket member.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in plan of a blank from which the socket-piece and the socket member may be formed. Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation of a socket-piece made from said blank. Fig. ,3 is a View in side elevation of a modified form of socket-piece. Fig. 4 is a View in plan of either of the socketpieces represented in Figs. 2 and 3. Fig. 5 is aview in vertical section of the socket-piece represented in Fig. 2 upon the line 5 5 of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a View in vertical section of the socket-piece shown in Fig. 3 upon the dotted line 5 5 of Fig. 4. Fig. 7 represents in section a set socket member. Fig. 8 represents in section a capped set socket member.

The blank from which the socket-piece is made, instead of having four arms, ashas the socket-piece-forming blank of the patent referred to, has but two arms or sections diametrically arranged, and each of which hasa diamond or other shaped opening in the portion thereof that forms a side and a part of the finished flange of the socket member and socket-piece.

Before further describing the shape of the blank I would say that in practicing the invention to which this belongs it is necessary to first reduce it to a shape or socket-piece that shall have a split tubular section of a size to enter a preformed hole in the glove or fabric to which it is to be attached, and which shall also have a preformed finishing-flange, and to then finish or complete the formation of the socket member in place on-the glove or fabric by folding the sides of the socket-piece outwardly upon the surface of the glove or fabric opposite that against which the preformed flange bears, whereby a second cooperating flange is formed and aconical socketcavity extending from the socket-entrance established. In order that the socket-entrance may be yielding, the preformed flange must be separable, and in order that the sizes of the barrel of the socket-piece may be folded outward in transforming the socket-piece into a socket member the sides of the tubular section must be separable; but while one or two slits will answer to give the preformed flange resiliency it is desirable, though not essential, that the barrel of the socket-piece have at least four and which shall separate it into sections or arms of equal width; but it is not necessary that all the slits forming them shall extend through the flange, and my invention relates to a structure in which the number of slits for providing resiliency to the flange varies from the number of slits for providing the tubular section of the socket-piece with its socket-forming and its setting functions.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the blank from which the socket member is formed. This blank is represented as having a central section a and sections a a which are arranged opposite each other, and each of which has the flange-forming part a and an elongated hole a, which is preferably diamond-shaped.

Where it is desirable to produce a socketpiece having a flange b which is continuous, excepting for the slits hereinafter mentioned, and where it is desirable that the barrel 1) of the socket-piece should be a continuous tubular structure, excepting for the slits to be mentioned, I prefer to form the blank as represented in Fig. 1that is, with flange-forming sections a and with the side edges a flaring outwardly from the notches a to the edges a of the flange-forming sections. notches a are provided in the blank for the purpose of relieving the action of the metal together upon each side and form the two oppositely-arranged slits b one only of which ICO is shown extending from the top or closed end of the socket-piece through the barrel 1) and flange b. The edges surrounding the elongated recesses a are brought together to form the slits b, which are also oppositely arranged and which extend from the closed end 11 lengthwise the barrel and preferably into but not through the flange. It is not necessary, however, that these edges be brought entirely together excepting at the socket-entrance, and in Fig. 3 I have represented them as not brought together in the barrel, although they are represented as brought together in the flange. This will produce a barrel in which the sides are slightly separated and bulge outward. The socketpiece will thus have two slits in the barrel and flange which extend through the flange and provide the socket-entrance with resiliency, because it permits of the slight separation of the flange necessary for the admission of the ball to and withdrawal from the socketentrance, and two other slits, which separate the sides of the socket-piece into four arms or sections, but which do not separate or divide the flange.

The socket-piece is converted into a socket member by end pressure, which folds outwardly the sides of the socket-piece substantially to the shape represented in Figs. 7 and 8, separating them, forming them into a flange 0 which cooperates with the preformed flange 0, while the shape of the preformed flange is maintained and the entrance to the cavity of the socket-piece maintained and converted into a socket-entrance by the change in the shape of the arms or walls above it,this change in shape producing the cooperating fastening-flange 0 above referred to, defining the socket-entrance,and establishing a ball-holding cavity.

In the drawings, 0 represents the socketpiece, and it has a flange 0, across which two slits extend. It has the socket-entrance c, and it also has four arms 0 three only of which are shown. These arms are connected at one end by the top section 0 and at the other end are joined together in pairs, each half-section of the flange 0 being integral with two arms.

In Fig. 8 the socket member is represented as associated with a cap D in the manner described in my said patent.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- 1. A blank for forming a socket-piece and socket member of a ball-and-socket fastener having a central section a to form a top to the socket piece and member, two side and flange-forming arms or sections a, a extending therefrom, one or both of which have longitudinal openings therein not extending through the flange-forming parts of the blank.

2. A blank for forming a socket piece and member of aball-and-socket fastener having a central section a the arms a a the flan eforming sections a longitudinal openings 0. in said arms, the said arms also having the notches a and the side edges at, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. A socket-piece having a preformed flange and a tubular socket-forming extension provided with slits, some of which extend to or into the flange but not through it, and one of which at least extends entirely through the flange.

4. A socket-piece having the closed top N, a flange b dividedinto two parts and a barrel 1) composed of four arms which are connected at one'end by the closed top I) and at the other end in pairs by the flange b.

5. A socket member of a ball-and-socket fastener having the divided flange c, the folded arms 0 the top section a connecting all the arms, the socket-entrance c, the said arms being also connected together in pairs by sections of said flange.

WILLIAM S. RICHARDSON.

\Vitnesses:

F. F. RAYMOND, 2d, J. M. DOLAN. 

